Academic ownership of intellectual property facilitated wide dissemination and commercialization of antibody technology. Moves at the University of Cambridge to reclaim institutional IP rights should thus be treated with caution.
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Although he continues to work as an academic research scientist, he is the coinventor of a number of international patents and applications, and has royalty interests in several commercial products, including alemtuzumab (Campath).
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Clark, M. Empowering the inventor—the case of monoclonal antibodies. Nat Biotechnol 23, 1047–1049 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0905-1047
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